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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 11 No. 2	Slow Art: The Pleasures of Trompe l’Oeil	Ask the Author	Wendy Bellion
Vol. 09 No. 2	Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon	Ask the Author	Scott Casper
Vol. 03 No. 2	In Praise of Hearsay	Ask the Author	Elaine Forman Crane
Vol. 11 No. 2.5	Money Matters	Reviews	Stephen Campbell
19.1	Whitman and Disability: An Introduction	Features	Don James McLaughlin and Clare Mullaney
19.1	“Now I Chant Old Age”: Whitman’s Geriatric Vistas	Features	Sari Edelstein
19.1	Convalescent Calamus: Paralysis and Epistolary Mobility in the Camden Correspondence with Peter Doyle	Tales from the Vault	Don James McLaughlin
Vol. 15 No. 3.5	Who’s Mature Enough to Govern?	Reviews	Jane Fiegen Green
Vol. 10 No. 1	Con Games: Past and present	Ask the Author	Stephen Mihm
Vol. 18 No. 2	Fires in the Hearth	Poetic Research	Afaa M. Weaver

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